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Author:

Sturken, Marita, 1957-

Title:

Tourists of history : memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero / Marita Sturken.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xii, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Collective memory--United States.
Psychic trauma--Social aspects--United States.
Souvenirs (Keepsakes)--Social aspects--United States.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.
National characteristics, American.
Popular culture--United States.
Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-331) and index.

Contents:

Consuming fear and selling comfort -- Citizens and survivors : cultural memory and Oklahoma City -- The spectacle of death and the spectacle of grief : the execution of Timothy McVeigh -- Tourism and "sacred ground" : the space of Ground Zero -- Architectures of grief and the aesthetics of absence.

ISBN:

0822341220 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822341222 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822341034 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822341031 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007018101

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)